How to Be a Smart-Mouth Latina/o against Anti-Latino Racists

Have you ever needed the best comeback for a nativist and Latino-hating bigot but simply could not come up with one? We developed a series of sarcastic and quick-witted remarks that you can utilize on people who make remarkably anti-Latino remarks. This list has been developed over the years by our families, our friends, and our own quick-thinking brains. We feel that it’s our right to share this repository of insults to other Latinos who can whip them out on the appropriate people at the right moment:

1. “Mexicans are taking all of Americans’ jobs.”

The Common-sense Response: “Mexicans are lazy too. They are so lazy they want to take your job.”

The Womanizer Response: “Yea, we are going after your women next!”

The Insulting Response: “Trust me. They don’t want your job as an a**hole.”

The Marxist Response: “White people are taking all of Mexicans’ money. It balances out.”

The UFW Response: “I bet you’re gonna knock us over for those lucrative fruit picking jobs.”

2. “We should stop all these Mexicans from having anchor babies.”

The Fierce Response: “That’s simple to fix. We could always only let in Latino gay men.”

The Islamaphobe Response: “They are really terror babies with their loaded diapers.”

The Eurochauvinist Response: “European anchor babies don’t count.”

3. “You only got this job (or went to school here) because of your race.”

The Put-Down Response: “At least they had a reason to let me in. I can’t figure out why they picked you.”

The “Stupid Racist” Response: “With your stupidity, being white had to be the reason that they let you in.”

The Historical Response: “In other news, Rosa Parks totally wouldn’t have been able to sit in the front of the bus if she were white.”

The Yo’Momma Response: “I would need to go back to yo’ momma’s bed and get my tools back.”

5. “All you Hispanics need to go back home.”

The Illegal Response: “Sorry. I already paid my coyote for a one-way trip. You want to lend me the money back home? “

The Fobby Response: “If you give me a few hours, I need to dry my clothes from the swim.”

The Yo’ Sister Response: “My home is yo’ sister’s house.”

The Green-card Response: “If you marry me, I will become legal.”

6. “Wow. You don’t look Hispanic.”

The “Confuse-the-Gringo” Response: “That’s because my mom is from South Africa and my dad is from Asia and my sister is from Russia. (after looks of confusion) You must be really confused because I was born in Saudi Arabia. But I am a Hispanic, or wait, does it make me Latin instead, you know, from Italy?”

The Latino-Pride Response: “Well, that’s because I left my sombrero and sarape in the car and forgot to wear my tan in the can—like you did.”

The Future-Boss Response: “If you can’t stop being racist now, I might not hire you and discriminate against you in the future.”

The Pro-Sex Response: “Well, excuse us for enjoying sex and breeding.”

9. “Wetbacks.”

The Bilingual Response: “Correction. It’s pronounced Mo-ja-dos.”

The Border Control Response: “Man, we swam a river and you swam an ocean. Whose back is wetter?”

10. Police officer: “I need to see your papers.”

The Pro-Gay Marriage Response (with friend of the same gender in the car): “Yes, Mr. Arpaio, I became legal yesterday after I married my girlfriend here.”The Boehner Response: “Sorry if my tan offended you!”

The Canadian Response: “I must have been stopped for looking like an illegal Canadian. Stupid maple syrup in the car.”

The Childish Response: “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.”

Bigots don’t like to be made to look stupid, especially by someone of the group that they don’t respect. When we take racist nativists seriously, we give them power. When we make fun of them, we remind the world of how truly powerless they are due to their ignorance and bigotry. Hopefully, these comebacks will equip you to bring a little more laughter to the world while simultaneously fighting bigotry.

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About Efrain Nieves

Efrain Nieves is a freelance writer, blogger and poet. He is an advocate of the Latino-American experience. His writings, at palantelatino.com, combine poetry, politics, education and history with the objective to create awareness while informing the Latino and non-Latino community of our relevance and contribution to the U.S. We strive to reach a diverse audience.

4 Responses to “How to Be a Smart-Mouth Latina/o against Anti-Latino Racists”

How absurd. Christina, is this what we got for our money in providing you with an eduction? We don’t need put downs or snappy comebacks. What we need for you and all my latina sisters and brothers to jump into public service so that we can be the next presidents, governors, congresspersons, etc..That will effect real change not a nasty put down..

You are 100 percent right for large-scale changes in our society. However, during our day-to-day interactions with people, we can not call in our congressman to respond to racists. Besides, these comebacks were written to make people laugh while addressing some real stereotypes against our people.